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[email protected] · September 19th 17, 05:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
14:13:20 on Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Robin remarked:
I wonder why covent garden was spared? Its a small cramped station
that can't really cope with evening crowds and its literally a 3-4
minute walk to leicester square. Its a bit of an anomoly IMO.

IMO the explanation is lots of tourists, who support lots of shops and
restaurants, who pay lots of business rates,

Unlike the rest of the country, are London business rates kept by the
local authority, or are they just general revenue kept by the
Treasury?

Not really, though it does sort of come back to local authorities now.

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Colin Rosenstiel